Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
# Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic link | |
| Nicholson, Stuart. | "Essential" |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |

Road Time was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was made at three concerts in Tōkyō and Ōsaka, during a 1976 Japan tour and the double album received a 1977 Grammy nomination in the "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" category.

## Track listing

LP 1 side A

* "Tuning Up" – 16:48
* "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" – 7:33

LP 1 side B

* "Henpecked Old Man" – 22:54

LP 2 side A

* "Soliloquy" – 8:37
* "Kogun" – 10:40

LP 2 side B

* "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 13:46
* "Road Time Shuffle" – 6:34

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi.

All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin).

## Personnel

* Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
* Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
* Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
* Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
* Gary Foster – alto saxophone
* Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
* Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
* Bobby Shew – trumpet
* Richard Cooper – trumpet
* Mike Price – trumpet
* Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
* Jim Sawyer – trombone
* Jimmy Knepper – trombone
* Phil Teele – bass trombone
* Don Baldwin – bass
* Peter Donald – drums

Guest Artists:

* Kisaku Katada – kotsuzumi (on "Kogun")
* Yutaka Yazaki – ōtsuzumi (on "Kogun")

## References / External Links

* ↑ Nicholson, Stuart. The Essential Jazz Records, Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism, Road Time (p226~229). Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
* ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
* RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-9115 ~ RCA-9116
* Allmusic
* 1977 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Performance - Big Band (LA Times link)
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